desktop menu button enlarg the panel

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> 
>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>The desktop menu button enlarge the panel by several pixels (about 5 or
>>>>10 pixels from my own perception). This should not happen IMO.
>>>
>>>
>>>that's odd.  it _used_ to do that, but i just fixed it the other day.  
>>>well, mostly fixed it.  it shouldn't enlarge the panel by more than 1 or 
>>>2 pixels (depending on the panel size).  i can't figure out why it's 
>>>even doing that much, but i haven't had a chance to spend a lot of time 
>>>on it.
>>>
>>>can you give me a an actual number?  perhaps by taking a screenshot 
>>>before and after and comparing the sizes in gimp?  or if you don't feel 
>>>like taking the time, posting the screenshots would be fine and i can do 
>>>it.
>>>
>>>	-brian
>>>
>>
>>Brian,
>>
>>Couldn't you use the xfce_iconbutton from libxfcegui4 with automatic 
>>scaling and forget about the sizing entirely?
>>
>>	Jasper
> 
> 
> the problem with that is the menu button has an option to display an 
> icon or the text "Xfce4".  also, it'll fall back to the text if the icon 
> isn't found (tho i suppose this part isn't important).  in addition, the 
> user can display the text _and_ the icon simultaneously if they want 
> (tho i'm not sure why).  JF wrote the patch for the option.  anyway, 
> correct me if i'm wrong, but i dont think xfce_iconbutton can do this 
> without some difficulty.
> 

Aah, ok, in that case you are right. Silly option though, IMO ;-)

For me just the icon would be fine, perhaps with a small arrow 
indicating it's a menu.